Like a dish described on a menu, some things don’t always live up to the promise. A road movie with two (very) mature Englishwomen, running away from home and behaving disgracefully, plus the promise of late life romance, sounded delicious.

The executive director of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Peter Wertheim has described some comments at the NSW Labor conference made by former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr as being “ignorant and disingenuous”. Read more

Over 350 women from across Sydney and communities worldwide attended the second annual Women of Diversity Dinner in Bankstown on Saturday night – half of them newly arrived from the Middle East, many of them Christians fleeing persecution, sexual slavery and genocide. Read more

Fifty years ago, after recapturing the Temple Mount which also houses the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa mosque, Israel established the so-called “status quo” which has remained more or less unchanged since 1967. Read more

The NSW Labor Israel Action Committee (LIAC) has vowed to continue to oppose former NSW Premier Bob Carr’s continued activity on Israel – after successfully forcing him to recognise Israel’s right to exist within secure and recognised borders”. Read more

The Australia Israel Labor Dialogue (AILD) today congratulated the NSW Labor Branch Conference in not agreeing to bind a future Federal Labor Government to unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Read more

Perhaps few resources are more valuable to a nation than water and energy supplies. Israel will soon reach what could be a point of no return in which the Netanyahu government will have to decide which to put first: water or energy. Read more

President Trump’s tweets about his broad power to pardon have raised the ultimate question: Can the president pardon himself? The answer is crystal clear! And anyone who gives you a different answer is misleading you, because there is only one correct answer…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

SBS has apologised for a report on a recent attack in Jerusalem which stated that an “attacker was shot dead after stabbing a border police officer” which failed to report that the young policewoman victim died of her injuries. Read more

Sky News Political Contributor Peta Credlin and Daily Telegraph Opinion Editor James Morrow have addressed a luncheon hosted by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) in Sydney following their return from an AIJAC Rambam study mission to Israel. Read more

President Reuven Rivlin this afternoon (Wednesday), paid a condolence visit in Elad, at the home of Elad Salomon, who was murdered together with his father Yossi, and sister Chaya in a terror attack on Friday night in Halamish. Read more

Jewish tour-guide and educator for StandWithUs Kay Wilson and a friend were viciously attacked by terrorists, while hiking near Jerusalem. She will be the guest speaker at Magen David Adom annual campaign dinner in Sydney. Read more

The World Jewish Congress has welcomed the European Court of Justice’s decision to uphold the European Union’s listing of Hamas as a terrorist organisation and called on the EU do to everything in its power to prevent European entities from engaging in business or showing any other form of support with it. Read more

With the veracity and popularity of the Australian World Orchestra now firmly established, its creators, led by conductor Alexander Briger, no doubt feel the need for development. That’s what last night’s chamber music concert was all about. Read more

Israeli soldiers arrested the mother of Palestinian terrorist Omar al-Abed Tuesday on charges of “aggravated incitement,” following her son’s fatal stabbing of an Israeli father and two of his adult children last Friday night in the Samaria community of Halamish. Read more

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report a significant decline in sperm concentration and total sperm count among men from Western countries. Read more

In Conversation series, featuring Thomas Mayor, delegate to the Uluru Statement process. Thomas has been travelling throughout Australia with the Uluru Statement advocating for its call for the ‘establishment of First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution’. He will share his story and provide the opportunity for people to sign their support. Read more